How to Improve 5G Business Agility and Time to Market with Automation
Discover how to improve 5G business agility in this articled, written by Eficode. If Communication Service Providers (CSPs) want to realize true business agility they need to focus on automating every aspect of their processes and tools. With the arrival of 5G, CSPs are starting to see a huge amount of new use cases where their connectivity services are the key enablers. But what truly matters when transforming from Communication Service Provider (CSP) towards Digital Service Provider (DSP)? In this blog post we’ll take a deep dive to find out. When you are offering new services to your customers the performance of your value streams, and how quickly they can adapt to new processes, is vital. Optimizing your value streams is the most
Can Manual Testers Survive in the Age of DevOps?
Why DevOps? Market trends show that most companies are evolving towards having most of their test coverage come from automated testing rather than manual testing. As more frequent deployments drive a need for higher levels of automation, many manual testers are starting to worry about the role they will play in the development process going forward. For those wondering what the future state might look like, there is bad news, but also good news to share: The bad news: all testers’ roles are changing, manual or otherwise. In specific, technical skills are becoming more important than ever, especially with growing interest in DevOps. Ever-changing roles and responsibilities should come as no surprise to anyone working in a technology field. We must
Test & Quality Summit Online – 16 Sept
The 2020 Test & Quality Summit is going virtual and will now take place online on Wednesday 16th September, 12:00-18:00 BST. This is a 100% FREE event for software testers and quality assurance professionals. Register for free today and secure your place. Join the brightest minds in testing to learn, network, collaborate, and grow. Learn proven ways to improve your testing from global innovators in agile, AI, communication, DevOps, management, test automation and much, much more. The Test & Quality Summit will be accessible from any device, so you can attend from your office, your home or even on the go! Join hundreds of Test and QA engineers from across the globe for the next chapter in software testing. Get up to date
What is the book Dragons Out all about
This blog post is a republish of how I described the book last autumn in the Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign. It gives some depth to the book. The book tells a growth story of two 10-year old children, Laura and Tom, from kids into knight apprentices. They learn about dragons and knights fighting those dragons, and get into real action themselves, too. They get help from male and female knights and a wise old sage. The stories take place in a setting resembling medieval Europe. As these fantasy stories unfold, I explain to the readers the software development and testing world in analogies or parallels. Each chapter introduces another type of dragon, which represents a software defect/bug in the real world. Knights represent
Testers – Is it our own fault we are Underrated?!
Our value. As Testers is it our fault we are underrated in organisations? Have we been underselling ourselves for years?! From speaking to numerous testers at conferences and testers I have worked with directly over the years I have noted that we are not naturally inclined to sell ourselves in our own organisations. Is this why we are being told by the jobs industry that our role can be fully automated or that we have to work in a job where our primary function is to automate?! I have absolutely no doubt that I have saved large sums of money for the companies I have worked for in my role as a Tester. I have highlighted assumptions, ambiguities and grey areas in
How to avoid bias in Artificial Intelligence
People think AI makes unbiased decisions People make biased decisions, because of their experiences and their beliefs. There is a common conviction that AI makes unbiased decisions. In reality, the kind of narrow artificial intelligence that exists today is far from unbiased. There are many examples of bias in systems with artificial learning capabilities that are evident, such as racist twitter bots, recruitment systems only choosing male applicants and systems that predict colored criminals will have higher risks of recidivism than they actually do. We wonder how many biased systems there are that we haven’t discovered… Good reads on this topic are Richard Fall’s articles ‘When AI goes bad‘ and ‘Algorithms and bias in the criminal justice system‘ , and the great
Testing and Quality in the Scaled Agile Framework for Lean Enterprises
Scaled Agile Framework for Lean Enterprises (SAFe) is becoming the most popular framework used to help large programs and entire companies achieve business agility. It builds on well-known agile-lean principles and methodologies, and puts them together to address challenges not only on team level, but also on program, large solution and portfolio level. Although the framework is described in more details than other comparable frameworks it is not very elaborate on how testing and quality practices fit in. This raises new challenges for testers, Q&A and test managers, test architects, test specialists and people in similar roles together with the entire organisation. In this eBook Derk-Jan de Grood and Mette Bruhn-Pedersen describe what guidance SAFe actually provides and suggest additional ways testers can